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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Several Articles Provide Insight on City Budget & Priorities

To All COLA LO Members,

This week the LO Review published several articles on the recently approved City Budget for FY 12/13.

The first article was written by the citizens budget committee chair Kent Studebaker. The article describes how the perceptions of what is needed in Lake Oswego differ. The article Perceptions Seem to Differ provide some insight into the inner workings of the budget committee and the history of this latest budget process.

In the same issue board member Dave Berg drafted an article about the recent budget decisions and what they may mean to the residents of our city. In the article What does our city budget tell us? Dave attempts to simplify the budget and describe what the final decisions mean to all of us.

Both articles provide for interesting reading and some insight into the key issues regarding spending and taxes in our city...